Why philosopher KANT of germany is considered great?

Question

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Answer 1

He is considered great because he is so confusing most people do not understand him. The first answerer is completely wrong when he writes:

"1 He has created an ethics system that can be used for every decision in life while avoiding both altruism and egoism

2 He has come up with an elementary philosophy which allows people to trust science as a source of knowledge

3 His books are far more easy to understand than those of philosophers who are actually better, like Socrates and Wittgenstein.

Why?

1. "Kant’s expressly stated purpose was to save the morality of self-abnegation and self-sacrifice. He knew that it could not survive without a mystic base—and what it had to be saved from was reason."

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Self-abnegation and self-sacrifice ARE the destruction of egoism and the use of altruism.

2. If he is so "elementary," then why are some of his sentences more than a page in length? That is partly the reason he confuses so many people. And if his system allows people to "trust" science, then why did he invent something, which he called "Noumena," that no science will ever be able to examine?

They say that in person he was very much a man who would answer all questions and make them clearly understandable. So he had a large following of students who adored him.

But in his writing he is so confusing that most reasonable people cannot see all the flaws in his philosophy, which, in his book "Pure Reason," begin on page one. If the first flaws are on page one, how can the rest of the book be unflawed?

Answer 2

1. He allows for autonomy of will and individuality

2. He speaks of duty, you know who your duty is to

3. He respects the human body as a whole (ie: we shouldn't harm ANY part of it)

4. Unlike utilitarianism, kantian ethics focuses more on individuality and not whats best for the greatest number of people

5. Takes into account our loved ones, unlike some other theories

Answer 3

1 He has created an ethics system that can be used for every decision in life while avoiding both altruism and egoism

2 He has come up with an elementary philosophy which allows people to trust science as a source of knowledge

3 His books are far more easy to understand than those of philosophers who are actually better, like Socrates and Wittgenstein.  

Answer 4

His theory of duty in Ethics is considered a masterpiece.

Answer 5

his duty in ethics would be considered a masterpiece to the illogical. the guy contradicted himself, especially in his notion of categorical imperatives. his ideologies weren't all that great at all.  

Answer 6

1. Prolegomena zu jeden Philosophie die als Wissenschaft wirden gegen, a little book that established the basis and set forth the problems for every philosophy since.

2. Never leaving Königsberg, and writing in his native Prussian his teachings were carried around the world.

3. His Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals is unparalleled as a textbook of ethics.  The Categorical Imperative works in all circumstances. It moves beyond duty which he held to be contradictory, frequently supporting vice as virtue.  To act in such a manner as one would see established as a general law, and to always treat others as an end as well as a means is a firm basis of behaviour commendable among all people.

[4. Those who see "duty" as the basis of Kant's ethical teaching haven't read past the point where he outlines duty, which was a popular basis of ethics prior to Kant.  It is an idea he proceeds to tear to shreds as he puts forward the Categorical Imperative.  That kind of "reading" would flunk anything but a survey course in philosophy where Kant's writing on duty is read as an illustration of the ideal of duty because of his clear statement of an ideal he did not hold nor think reasonable.]

[5. Those confused by Kant are those without any basis or understanding of German syntax and grammar or the precision involved in writing in compound complex sentences.  A joke illustrative of this relates to the death of the late Karl Rahner.  At the time of his death he was working on a 20 volume comprehensive compendium of philosophy and theology, and had completed everything through volume 19.  The project had to be scrapped because all the verbs were in volume 20!]